Adverse events in patients in home healthcare: a retrospective record review using trigger tool methodology.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Home healthcare is an increasingly common part of healthcare. The patients are often aged, frail and have multiple diseases, and multiple caregivers are involved in their treatment. This study explores the origin, incidence, types and preventability of adverse events (AEs) that occur in patients receiving home healthcare.

Design

A study using retrospective record review and trigger tool methodology.

Setting and methods

Ten teams with experience of home healthcare from nine regions across Sweden reviewed home healthcare records in a two-stage procedure using 38 predefined triggers in four modules. A random sample of records from 600 patients (aged 18 years or older) receiving home healthcare during 2015 were reviewed.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

SUBMITTER: Schildmeijer KGI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5781156 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature